I know they’re not amazing photographs, but it was good practice, especially at trying to layer a shot.

I can’t seem to get a nice photograph of the woods themselves, seems to be you need a focus point or a very clear subject of some description, or to me it just ends up like a mass of green and brown shades. Always a bit too busy, not relaxing like the woods actually are.

I learnt something really neat too, I learnt what the numbers mean at the bottom of the view finder, and now I know why there aren’t settings specifically to control them (well, their kind of are).

They look like this:

-3…-2…-1…0…1…2…3

That is the exposure indicator!!

With my eye to the view finder, scene lined up and in focus, I adjusted settings until the indicator sat in the middle, at the zero point.

Sure enough, when I checked the image I’d captured and it’s histogram, the exposure was good.

This, was really cool for me for a few reasons; I had more instant feedback and control over exposure, and I didn’t have to take the camera away from my face, I knew where the buttons I needed were, and I could see them changing of course in the view finder indicators; along with the newly found (to me) exposure indicator!!